Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Fiancés (Blue)
Alternate Title:
Les Fiancés (bleus)
Image View:
Detail, round base of vase decorated with village and moon
Creator:
Marc Chagall (Belorussian ceramicist, 1887-1985)
Location:
repository: Musée National Marc Chagall (Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France)
Location Note:
36 Avenue Docteur Ménard
GPS:
43.709167 7.269536
Date:
1962 (creation)
Cultural Context:
French
Style Period:
Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
vase
Classification:
Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design
Material:
fired ceramic: white clay; slips; oxides
Technique:
casting (process); fabrication attributes: ceramics; painting and painting techniques
Subjects:
abstraction; contemporary (1960 to present); folkloric; dreamlike; marriage; lovers
Description:
In the early 1950s Chagall experimented with painted ceramics, to which he applied his familiar motifs. (In this case betrothed lovers.) During a decade he produced 220 ceramic works. In Chagall's "vase-sculptures", the handles and feet of the ceramics become arms, busts, legs and wings, accentuating their anthropomorphic or zoomorphic character. This piece is slip-cast, decorated with slips and oxides and engraved (sgraffito) with a knife and dry point. (Source: Chagall Museum [website]; http://en.musees-nat ionaux-alpesmaritime s.fr/chagall/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-CHAGALL-LFB-A05
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Fiancés (Blue)